Cornell Hemp Webinar Series: Agronomic Practices – Effect on Quality, Yield and Processing
Stefano Amaducci, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
April 17, 2024 | 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. (EST)
Stefano Amaducci is a full professor of Agronomy and Field Crops at the Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Since 2019, he has been president of CITIMAP Scarl (www.citimap.it), which develops remote sensing solutions to support precision agriculture. Most of his past research focused on the agronomic evaluation of industrial crops, particularly for fibre and biomass production.
More recently, the focus of his research has broadened to studying and developing management strategies to increase the sustainability of agricultural systems. Experimental activities are carried out at the interface of crop ecophysiology, applied agronomy, and soil science. Recently, he has been working on the development of agrivoltaic solutions to combine electric energy with food production on the same land.
With particular pertinence to the fibre sector, he has participated in or coordinated numerous national and international projects on fibre crops and on their multipurpose applications. In particular, he has coordinated the EU projects Multihemp and Hemps-sys, and he participated in the BBI-financed projects Fibra, Grace, and SSUCHY, all related to the development of high-value applications for fibre crops (in particular hemp but also miscanthus and other perennial crops).
Traditionally harvested at full flowering for textile destinations, nowadays hemp is mainly harvested at seed maturity for dual-purpose applications and has a great potential as multipurpose crop. However, the European hemp fiber market is stagnating if compared to the growing market of hemp seeds and phytocannabinoids. To support high value hemp fiber applications, agronomic techniques as well as genotypes and post-harvest processing should be optimized to preserve fiber quality during grain ripening, enabling industrial processing and maintaining, or even increasing, actual fiber applications and improving high-added value applications.
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Hemp Webinar Series Schedule
Subject to change
- May 1: Feral Germplasm and Genetic Diversity – Shelby Ellison, University of Wisconsin
The webinars will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. EST via Zoom.
If you miss one of our sessions or want to watch a session again, you can find recordings on our 2024 Cornell Hemp Webinar YouTube playlist.